Word: loveliest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must have been a magic mirror. After 15 years, Sally Kellerman is one of the screen's loveliest and most delightful comediennes, a fortuitous cross between Kay Kendall and Carole Lombard. Last week her work as Major "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the heretical M*A*S*H won her a nomination for an Academy Award...
...ranking expert on wild geese, Thorpe has banded the pinkfoot for conservation, painted it on canvas, filmed it, shot 3,800 himself and instructed countless other guns−from the Queen Mother's private secretary to Actor Richard Todd−on the wily ways of "the loveliest bird that flies." The call of the pinkfoot, says Thorpe, is the most difficult to imitate. By recording the geese's ringing ung-unk on tape, he learned to distinguish between the gander's imperious high bark and the lower cry of the female. Out on the marshes he does...
...reverence before the dazzling domed temples of Byzantine Ravenna, the Gothic splendors of Canterbury and Chartres, the sinuous harmonies of the Baroque churches of Saragossa, Vienna and Prague. But few tourists have yet made their way to Moldavia, a distant province of northern Rumania, where some of the loveliest churches in Europe are clustered (see color pages). The churches of Moldavia are exceptional not only for their beauty but for how they are treated by the Communist state. While most of the churches in neighboring Russia are closed or have been turned into museums, the doors of virtually all Rumania...
Luxurious Playground. The Casino's heritage is as glorious as the tricolor itself. It was originally founded on the estate of the Due de Richelieu (grand nephew of the cardinal) two centuries ago. For the libertine duke's pleasure, the loveliest courtesans of France performed voluptuous charades. Between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, France's Belle Epoque, the Casino was the luxurious playground of continental nobility. Between the world wars, it went into decline under Director Henri Varna. "Give the public nudes, feathers and spangles. That's all they want," he once said...
...more sympathetic person and take the edge off her duplicitous scheming. When she first appears before the King she does not curtsy but instead prostrates herself for an unconscionable length of time before the throne. Shaw would not have liked that. Coleridge proclaimed that Helena is Shakespeare's "loveliest character." She is a far cry from that, but Miss Maxwell gives her a hefty push in that direction...